Similar words: contemplation, contemplate, contemplated, template, contempt, self-contempt, contemporary, contemptible. Meaning: ['kɑntəmpleɪtɪv /'kɒn-] n. a person devoted to the contemplative life. adj. persistently or morbidly thoughtful.
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1. Martin is a quiet, contemplative sort of chap.
2. He gave her a contemplative look.
3. Her mood was calm and contemplative.
4. The bookish, the contemplative life.
5. She was in contemplative mood.
6. The solitary life did not mean that a contemplative was deprived of all human contact, however.
7. Unlike the contemplative Hawthorne, Dickens could not wait to see the Falls.
8. It will cease with time, whereas contemplative life may be begun in time, but it will be perfected beyond it.
9. This state is the goal of the contemplative life, if not here, then certainly after death.
10. Through these channels the contemplative ideals developed in monastic communities found a wider audience.
11. The mood is contemplative and cool, even introspective; associations are immediately religious.
12. The Educorp catalogue also lists some more contemplative, or just curious, examples, including the Bogie Stack.
13. In practice active and contemplative life get in each other's way.
14. Does aesthetic art and mystical art and contemplative art offer alternatives to the horror and humiliation in which three-quarters of mankind lives?
15. Woosnam and Olazabal have been in more contemplative mood after further moderate performances in New Orleans.
16. This ritual process enacts a pattern which can be translated into inner experience in the contemplative discipline.
17. To stay and luxuriate in ordinary emotions and sensations means that the contemplative is trapped in our normal limitations.
18. For himself, he finds that the sitting posture most effectively releases his contemplative energy.
19. Hundreds of other powers could be listed in the following table, from both contemplative sources and from sports.
20. Sovereigns are born for an active life, and not for an idle or contemplative existence.
21. This ideal of an essential continuity between active and contemplative life is often worked out in practice in terms of their opposition.
22. Again, the evidence of wills indicates increased lay interest in the literature of the contemplative life.
23. Morris further believed that forcing anyone to be active during the contemplative phase, or vice versa, causes utter misery.
24. Instead he explores a number of aspects that all inhere in a state of contemplative awareness of a reality beyond time.
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25. Through a high level of devotional art they enact stages of the contemplative game - indeed provide means of play.
26. Yo mumbles to herself at the windows outlining her hairline with a contemplative index finger.
27. But both of these are distinct from intellectual, abstract or contemplative wisdom which was, for Aristotle, the highest goal.
28. But this is the mistake of ignorance, because they do not know what the contemplative life stands for.
29. History, the extension of human memory through time, is a contemplative luxury of advanced civilizations.
30. Seam progressed slowly, content to ignore commercial pressures and to concentrate on their contemplative music.
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